2018

With education foremost on many voters’ minds, residents packed into the Thurgood Marshall Center for a recent candidates forum focusing on the issue. The event organizer, the Coalition for D.C. Public Schools and Communities (C4DC),…

The District’s representative to the U.S. House of Representatives since 1991, DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is facing something she has seldom seen in the 14 elections after her initial hard-fought win: an opponent in the Democratic…

Voters on Tuesday will decide the fate of Initiative 77, which proposes to gradually eliminate the city’s tipped minimum wage and close the existing gap between tipped and non-tipped workers. The initiative ended up on the DC primary ballot…

Phil Mendelson isn’t interested in hearing his opponent claim to be the progressive candidate in the race. Walking out of a debate where DC Council Chair Mendelson and challenger Ed Lazere traded barbs over education scandals, Mendelson…

At-large DC Council member Anita Bonds certainly has her critics as she runs for re-election this year. She’s drawn two young and energetic primary challengers, real estate associate Marcus Goodwin and progressive activist Jeremiah Lowery.…

Marcus Goodwin still talks about Arthur's. The Columbia Heights convenience store was a longtime community institution around the corner from his mother’s house, and Goodwin said it used to be “our local source for any convenience,”…

When Bernie Sanders was mayor of Burlington, Vt., in the 1980s, he was an early champion of affordable housing programs known as community land trusts. Now a DC Council candidate wants to emulate Sanders’ program in the nation’s capital.…

Behind the formal portico of a 1909 Sheridan-Kalorama townhouse, the Washington Studio School welcomes and nurtures artists and aspiring artists. In high-ceilinged rooms that once housed the girls of Holton-Arms School, artists — both…

For some DC residents, living in the nation’s capital means listening to an excess of helicopter noise. But recently complaints have grown louder that the noises have increased and are occuring at all hours of the day. To try to address…